Majestic castles, even those that have fallen into disrepair and turned into dilapidated abode of dust and insects, continue to amaze with their scale and charm. We bring to your attention seven of the most impressive abandoned palaces and castles located in different parts of the world:
Bannerman Castle
Bannerman Island, New York, USA
The island on the Hudson was purchased in 1900 by Scottish immigrant Francis Bannerman, who built a castle on it to store a huge collection of weapons (he made money by selling them). In 1918, 2 years after the death of the Scot, the ammunition available on the castle territory exploded and destroyed part of the structure. Almost half a century later, in 1969, there was a fire, as a result of which the roof and part of the floors burned down. The island itself has been considered uninhabited since 1950, when the ferry that served it sank during a storm. In 2009, the remaining part of Bannerman's castle collapsed.
Halcyon Hall
Millbrook, New York, USA 
Built in 1890 as a luxury hotel, it was already closed in 1901. A few years later, the mansion was turned into Bennett College for Women, but in 1978, the educational institution for students from wealthy families went bankrupt due to the popularization of coeducational education. The building has been empty since then.
Palace of Said Halim Pasha
Cairo, Egypt 
The palace was designed Italian architect Antonio Latsias in 1899. During the First World War, the British confiscated the palace of Said Halim, who sided with the Turks. Later, the majestic building was transformed into high school for boys Al-Nassiriyah, considered one of the best in Cairo. The palace has been empty since 2004.
Podgoretsky Castle
Podgortsy village, Lviv region, Ukraine 
Construction of the castle lasted from 1635 to 1640. The castle's once luxurious interior was destroyed by soldiers during the First World War. In 1936, Roman Sangushko, into whose ownership the Podgoretsky Castle became, took several valuable pieces of furniture to Brazil, and after World War II the Renaissance palace was used as a tuberculosis sanatorium. In 1956, the castle caught fire and burned for 3 weeks. As a result of the fire, all the interior decoration was destroyed. Attempts to restore the building are currently being carried out by the Lviv Art Gallery.
Lillesden Mansion
Hawkhurst, Kent, England 
The building was built in 1853-85 by order of banker Edward Lloyd on his own estate. After the First World War the estate was sold and the mansion was turned into Bedgebury Public Girls School. The institution closed in 1999 due to a significant reduction in students, as well as due to the popularization of co-education, so the mansion fell into disrepair and has not been used since then.
Miranda Castle
Sel, province of Namur, Belgium 
Built in 1866 by the English architect Milner, commissioned by the noble Lidkerk-Boufort family, during the Second World War the mansion was seized by the Belgian national railway company and converted into an orphanage, which operated until 1980. The local municipality offered to take over the management, but the owners refused, so the castle has been empty since 1991.
Khrapovitsky estate in Muromtsevo
Muromtsevo village, Vladimir region, Russia 
The noble estate in the French style was built by the architect P.S. Boytsov, commissioned by the large Russian timber merchant V.S. Khrapovitsky. Construction of the estate lasted from 1884 to 1906.
5 o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock rings and the rays of the rising sun are on the horizon. Waking up in a tiny rented car somewhere in the south of France near a waterfall that could hardly ever compete with Niagara, I threw away thoughts of continuing sleep and completely concentrated on the goals of today, which was supposed to go down in the history of my relatively short life. life. And on this day I had to visit three abandoned French castles, whose prosperous days had long since sunk into oblivion. History is material - I realized this when I plunged headlong into the world of urban exploration - it is interesting to study a foreign country, but it is even more interesting to turn over long-forgotten pages of the past. Gradually, object by object, the world of the abandoned began to open its doors wider to give me the amazing opportunity to visit a dimension where such a concept as time is completely absent. There are moments that, in principle, at least somehow justify my life. Now the time has come to tell me about this wonderful day.
Photos and text by Marat Dupree 1. From the very morning a light rain began to fall, which, in general, was only good for today, given its atmospheric atmosphere. The first on the agenda was the Lumière castle - at night, when I reached the small town, the headlights caught the empty eye sockets of the windows and outlined the silhouette of a sleeping giant. I really like visiting abandoned places in the early morning - this way the opportunity to meet other lovers of the forgotten is minimal, and you can alone enjoy the atmosphere of the place, which is different for everyone. Having descended from a rather steep hill, I found myself at a building where an old Citroen, hidden from human eyes, also languished.
2. Also in this post I decided to experiment a little with HDR. All European colleagues have long been practicing this style when photographing abandoned places. Without pretending to be a perfect photograph, I'll just leave this here.
3. I was not surprised when I saw that all the doors were tightly boarded up. Using minimal acrobatic skills, I climbed along the richly decorated stucco molding to the broken window and found myself inside. The rain drummed on the surviving windows, creating the right mood for this visit and taking me back in time. A strange, aching, piercing feeling of the emptiness and frailty of everything earthly settled in my heart when I found myself in this place and touched the things of people who had long gone into oblivion, as if I was reading a sad and tragic story... But that’s exactly why I came here, to touch history and let it pass through your soul and heart. I was greeted by an empty hall with a red carpet. There used to be a mirror here, but there are idiots everywhere - someone broke it, and now there are notices all over the castle posted by volunteers with the general message “please don’t vandalize here.”
4. Some painted windows are still preserved, and I can only guess how long it will remain intact. Of course, every time you visit a place, a rhetorical question arises - how could something like this be abandoned?
5. People ask me if it’s scary to wander through such places alone. I answer - not at all. Often it’s when I’m alone that I get the most out of a given place, when I’m not distracted by extraneous sounds clicking shutters and other noise. I sat on the floor, turned on atmospheric music and just silently watched this beauty. It is impossible to convey even a hundredth part of what I felt through text, but believe me, such moments are very atmospheric.
6. I really like to process photographs with a long delay, when such moments have already turned into memories. This makes it clear how much I was hooked by this or that place, this or that moment. Sometimes I want to relive these events... I miss these times.
7. Having started to get interested in abandoned places, I lost quite a large part of my audience. People lacked spectacular and dangerous shots; abandoned things seem boring and uninteresting to them. As I grew older, I stopped needing the constant production of adrenaline and found another activity that I liked, and I also realized that I didn’t want to follow the lead of my audience and take dangerous shots just because society wanted it, since I myself had lost interest in this activity.
8. Every business must be treated with love, otherwise it will be posturing aimed at a commercial direction, and the “soul” of your stories will disappear somewhere. I noticed how many, in the pursuit of fame, lose the main idea of such a hobby, and this already guarantees the loss of 90% of all general impressions. Having set my priorities, I remained true to my passions - one developed into another, more meaningful and mature.
9. The main entrance is furnished very elegantly and sophisticatedly, the hand of professional architects is visible. If earlier outsiders could get here with great difficulty, now all that is needed is just to know the coordinates and seize the moment - the “shelf life” of many abandoned buildings is limited for many reasons: 1) the building may be demolished, 2) the building may begin to be restored, 3) the building may begin to be guarded, etc.
10. Forged painted grilles transport me to the world of luxury decadence. Stop for a moment, you are wonderful!
11. Thus, I spent more than 2 hours in the castle, without rushing anywhere. In terms of the level of impressions I received in these 2 hours, I definitely justified a quarter of a year of ordinary life. Having looked around the beautiful hall of the castle for the last time, I began to cover myself. Looking outside, I found my dear French town in the rays of the morning sun. Cosy
12. This is what the castle looks like from the outside. The family coat of arms has long been covered with rust, and the garden has long been overgrown with ivy and thorns. With indescribable sadness, I moved on.
13. The next castle, Chateau du Carnel, was located on the territory of a boarding house for the elderly. The castle is being actively restored, and it is possible that it has already begun to function. When approaching the castle, I was greeted only by its sad guards - sculptures of lions. One of them especially stuck with me. It is he who perfectly symbolizes the beautiful word decay - decline, devastation, desolation. But this lion was lucky - he survived a period of oblivion, and very soon he will see signs of life in his castle. The inside of the castle itself is empty and very dark - all the windows are boarded up.
15. There are workers working in the backyard who did not attach any importance to the fact that I was wandering around the protected area. Having walked around the perimeter of the castle, I rushed further to the last castle.
16. But there is a not very pleasant story connected with this castle, the “Monkey Castle”. Having parked near the church, I decided to take a shortcut to the castle through a small forest, which, as it turned out later, was obscenely overgrown with thorns. For 20 minutes, with difficulty breaking through its thickets and earning unpleasant scratches every second, I did not want to retreat - the top of the castle was visible, and it seemed that the goal was very close... However, having gone even further, I realized that the trace was from a well-trodden path irretrievably lost, and I will not go further. Selecting choice curse words, I went back, and when I came out of this trap, I noticed with annoyance that there was no living space on me, moreover, I was in three places tore my jeans. Cursing first of all at myself, I took a detour and soon saw that it was much easier to get here - from a country road.
17. The inside turned out to be not as interesting as in Chateau Lumiere, but still atmospheric. In the main hall, a mirror miraculously survived, although not completely. Seeing myself in the reflection of the broken mirror, all sorts of symbolic and ironic thoughts entered my head.
18. The main attraction of this place is the beautiful staircase. This is where the attractions end)))
19. This is how my express trip to the castles of France turned out. Every day more and more abandoned places appear in Europe, and, alas, it is not always possible to find out the coordinates of truly cool places. The most offensive thing is that some of them can “last” for just a month or two, and for Europeans the standard option for spending a weekend is to take a car and arrange a drive through abandoned places. This lifestyle really appeals to me. However, living in Moscow, of course, I cannot arrange this often, so each trip occupies a special niche in my heart. Abandoned places cannot be visited trivially, they must be passed through the heart and lived in it at least for a moment, otherwise you are unlikely to be imbued with the amazing and stunning atmosphere of such places, wanting to quickly take a good photo and leaving all the most interesting things outside the lens.
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Europe is rich in bloody historical events, and these are not necessarily wars or revolutions: almost every corner of England or Ireland has its own legend about a terrible incident in the family castle, they were besieged, and unfaithful wives were dealt with there. Therefore, there are many famous legends about ghosts who do not want to leave their home. Some owners of ancient buildings make money from this - after all, lovers of the supernatural flock there in droves. Abandoned castles and castles that occupy the top lines of tourist ratings in terms of attendance - the most terrible of them will reveal their terrifying secrets to you today!
A "hostel" for ghosts?
The Danish castle of Dragsholm was built in the 12th century and served as a fortress, but then turned into a banal prison. Today, this is by no means an abandoned castle, but a hotel with a conference room, two restaurants and... a home for hundreds of ghosts. One of them is the bishop of Roskilde, who died within these walls: he still wanders the halls and mutters something from the Catholic mass. Another ghost is Earl Bothwell, a prisoner in a local prison, he went crazy and died behind bars. Visitors claim that the sound of his horse's hooves can be heard in the castle courtyard. But the most famous infernal inhabitant of the Danish landmark is Selina Bowles, who fell in love with a commoner and became pregnant. The angry parent dealt with the rebellious one. Workers found her skeleton in 1930 in one of the castle walls. The poor guy's name here is simply White Lady. She wanders through the corridors and moans with grief. But the Gray Lady is a local servant. Suffering from a toothache, she turned to her owner, who gave her a poultice, and everything went away. She still wants to express gratitude to her savior and walks around the castle looking for work.
Punished traitors
The French ancient castle, abandoned Chateau de Chateaubriand, dates back to the 11th century. The ghost appeared here a long time ago - from the 16th century, after the death of Jean de Laval's wife, Francoise de Foix. She was the king's mistress and his wife's maid of honor and died mysteriously in October 1537. Most likely, her jealous husband had a hand in this by poisoning the unfaithful woman. For hundreds of years, the poor thing appears on the night of the death anniversary and walks the halls.
The Scottish castle of Meggerney is much younger than its previous “brothers”: it was built in the 17th century. Its main supernatural resident is harmless and even playful: she loves to appear unexpectedly and kiss sleeping men. It is believed that this is the ghost of the wife of the leader of the Menzi clan: he did not tolerate his wife’s flirtatious behavior, killed her and cut her in half. The lower half of her body "floats" on the lower floors and around the castle grounds, while the upper half is looking for someone to flirt with.
Don't play on the stairs!
Charleville is located in Ireland, it was built by order of the first Earl of Charleville, Charles William, at the end of the 18th century. This is one of the most famous abandoned castles in Europe, home to the ghost of the count's daughter Harriet. In 1861, eight-year-old Harriet was sliding down the railing of a high staircase, but could not resist, fell onto the stone floor and died. Anyone who wants to tickle their nerves comes here. Visitors claim that they hear children’s laughter, screams at night, singing, while others saw the fragile silhouette of a girl on the stairs.
They don't like guests here
Kip Castle is one of the oldest buildings in Newcastle, construction of which began in 1080. Beginning in the 17th century, its premises were turned into a prison, notorious for the unbearable conditions for prisoners. They say that every room of this abandoned castle has its own legend. Unexplained shadows and gray mists make staying here very unpleasant. Some of those who came to look at the castle were attacked by ghosts (they touched or pushed the uninvited guests). Other tourists heard the voices of women, the screams of soldiers, children and the singing of monks.
German giant
The German castle Eltz was first mentioned in the middle of the 12th century: Frederick the First instructed Count Rudolf von Eltz to protect the trade route connecting mountain plateau and the Moselle River. Surprisingly, the Eltz family still owns the giant building, so this is not an abandoned castle either. Some of the rooms are allowed to be visited. One of the bedrooms belonged to Countess Agnes - her bed, breastplate and battle ax have been preserved. It is believed that she died defending the castle from an unwanted suitor, and still haunts the rooms.
And mountains of human remains...
In the 15th century, Leap Castle was founded in Ireland. When they began to repair it, mountains of human remains were discovered in the dungeon - it took three carts to remove them from the territory. The long and bloody history of the castle has “settled” many ghosts here. One of the most disgusting is a strange creature the size of a sheep with a decaying muzzle. If you suddenly smell sulfur and rotting flesh, you need to run as fast as you can. You also need to be wary of the Red Lady - she was captured and raped, and the beauty committed suicide. Since then, she has been thirsting for revenge, so she wanders around the castle with a dagger. And Emily is harmless - she died at the age of 11, falling from a wall. The girl's ghost appears at the spot where she took her last step and disappears right before she hits the ground.
Musician and lady
In 1602, the Scottish castle of Cullin, famous for its two ghosts, was built for Sir Thomas Kennedy. The first is a musician who plays his bagpipes whenever one of the owners of the castle is about to get married. The second is a young woman dressed in an elegant ball gown. No one knows who she is and why she is wandering around the castle. The castle and the adjacent park are open to tourists.
Blue Boy and Lady Mary
One of the most beautiful and most visited castles in Great Britain, Chillingham, is located in Northumberland. But remember - in terms of the number of different ghosts, he is also among the record holders. The Light (or Blue) boy's screams can be heard at midnight. His bones were discovered in one of the bedroom walls during renovations. And although he was buried as it should be, the baby did not find peace. Another famous Chillingham ghost is Lady Mary Berkeley. She was the wife of the owner of the castle, but he ran away with her sister, leaving behind his wife and daughter. Mary walks through the halls of the castle and looks for her husband, who so treacherously abandoned the unfortunate woman.
Gate to Hell
The creepiest of haunted castles - Czech castle Houska because, according to legend, he guards the gates to hell. Built by order of King Otakar II at the beginning of the 13th century, it earned a very bad reputation. In the center of the castle there is a chapel with a deep well - it is there that you can hear the sounds of hell (records of eyewitnesses are available on the Internet). Legend has it that paranormal creatures live here, including a monster that is part human, part frog and part bulldog. Wow hybrid! And the ghost of a crazy monk chases those who come too close to the castle.
Miranda Castle, Celle, Belgium
These are sea fortifications located at the mouths of the Thames and Mersey rivers that protected Britain from threats from the North Sea during the Second World War. 21 towers are equipped with artillery guns, which shot down more than 22 German aircraft and 30 cruise missiles during the war. The forts have been abandoned since the 50s of the 20th century - several attempts have been made to dismantle them, but these strange towers still stand off the coast of North Kent.
Hafodunos Hall Nursing Home
Hafodunos Hall is a once beautiful two-story building in the neo-Gothic style, with galleries and a spacious attic. Since the 40s of the 20th century, it housed a women's boarding school, where young ladies after the Second World War were taught art, dancing and home economics. Then, in the 70s, Hafodunos Hall was the last shelter for the elderly, but in 1993 the nursing home was disbanded because the building no longer met sanitary and fire safety requirements. A fire broke out in it on October 13, 2004 - after which Hafodunos Hall was almost destroyed and completely abandoned.
Bodiam Castle
Real fairytale castle with round turrets, battlements and a drawbridge, located in the South-East of England and built in the 14th century. Its founder is Edward Dalingridge, but since 1378 the fortress has had more than one owner. It is believed to be one of the last real English castles to survive to this day, however, Bodiam, although there are tours there, is practically abandoned.
Ship SS Ayrfield
This is a forgotten ship located in Homebush Bay on south coast Parramatta River, near Sydney, Australia. During World War II, the SS Ayrfield, built to transport coal in 1911 in Great Britain and reaching 80 meters in length, was used by American troops as an ammunition transporter. It is unknown how this happened, but the ship was abandoned, and as a result, today it is something like a large artificial island.
Beijing "Wonderland"
Not far from the Chinese capital there is another abandoned amusement park: its construction began in 1998, and it was assumed that “Wonderland” would become largest center entertainment in Asia, but due to financial problems the construction was soon frozen. They returned to it only in 2008, but, alas, the crisis struck again, and as a result, almost 50 hectares are occupied by the unfinished princess castle and fairy-tale houses.
Yacht "Endless Sea"
Not so much the object itself as the photograph. Brrrrr... At my parents' dacha, near one of the bridges over a tiny river, a submerged boat lay under the bank. She was so creepy, but so attractive. That's why I liked this object. Underwater ghosts are generally my thing.
On April 7, 2012, a Brazilian research vessel with the beautiful name “Endless Sea” (Mar Sem Fim) sank in the waters of Maxwell Bay near the Shetland archipelago. The ship, led by the famous journalist João Lara Mesquita, went to Antarctica to film a documentary, but got stuck in the ice and was eventually crushed by it. Fortunately, the TV presenter and four crew members were rescued by Chilean sailors, but the yacht sank under the water, where it remained until the beginning of 2013, when it was pulled from the bottom and towed to a dock for repairs.
Fisherman's hut
In the only high mountain national park Germany's "Berchtesgaden", covering an area of over 210 km2 and included in the UNESCO heritage, in the middle of the lake "hidden" a flimsy fishing hut. It fits so organically into the local virgin natural landscape that it is difficult to imagine that this house was created by human hands.
Dutch Island
Dutch Island is an island in the Chesapeake Bay (North America) that was once inhabited by people, but is now completely deserted. The first inhabitants settled on it in the 1600s, and by the middle of the 19th century the island was densely populated by peasants and fishermen, and by the beginning of the 20th century it had about 70 houses and 360 inhabitants, had its own school, church and even a baseball team. However, soon strong winds began to destroy buildings - the islanders were forced to move to " mainland" And, in the end, in 1918, the last family left the island, and in 2010, the last building built on it collapsed Dutch island back in 1888.
Miranda Castle was built in 1866 by an English architect for the Ledekerke-Bofot family. The family lived there until World War II, when the mansion was taken over by the Belgian national railway company. It has been empty since 1991, partly because the owners refuse to turn it over to the municipality.
Bannerman Castle, New York, USA
Scottish immigrant Francis Bannerman bought the island in 1900 and built a castle there to store the munitions that formed the basis of his business. Two years after Bannerman's death in 1918, 200 tons of shells and gunpowder exploded, destroying a small part of the building. Then, in 1969, part of the floors and roof burned down in a fire. Since 1950, the island has been considered uninhabited because the ferry serving it sank during a storm. In 2009, the remaining part of the building collapsed.
And one more thing...
There are also a lot of abandoned creepy objects in Glasgow. For example, there are a lot of abandoned railway stations. And kilometers of abandoned tunnels. One of the stations is located right in the botanical garden, in a prestigious area of the city, and I walked past it a thousand times and did not suspect that these trees with wire fencing are actually a hundred-year-old peron just below ground level. And also the tunnel under the Clyde River, which was closed at the beginning of the last century due to the fact that even when it was new it was too creepy and people simply refused to use it. But two rotundas at both ends of the tunnel have been preserved, which are now something like snack bars and restaurants.
Abandoned station in the botanical garden
Another suburban station, ground Possil station
There are also many abandoned bridges in Glasgow or bridges that are poorly maintained.
The most famous bridge in the city center where trees walk is the City Union Railway bridge :) Recently I was driving past this bridge with my husband (right across from it is the ill-fated pub that a helicopter fell on last week), and saw that the trees had been removed from the bridge and Looks like it's being restored.
In general, there are a lot of abandoned places in Glasgow. Just within a 10-minute walk from our current apartment there are a dozen of them - one school, kindergarten, an old mansion, a boarding house, again - a vacant lot with an indistinct structure in the form of a station or hangar. I'll have to go and take photos.
but the most luxurious place (why is it not in the rating?? most likely because it is not mentioned on the Russian-language Internet), the abandoned psychiatric hospital Gartloch Insane Asylum. When I was younger and childless, I really wanted to go and see it. But they wrote on the forums that there is strong security there and no one is welcome there, except maybe photographers with an official ID.
The hospital was opened in the first decade of the last century and operated until the end of the Second World War.
In my best years. Well, and a bunch of ruins of castles and estates...
Some time ago I talked about abandoned cities that people abandoned for one reason or another. And today I want to continue the topic and show you abandoned places where no human has set foot for many years. As a rule, these are dwellings; for many years they kept the warmth of the hearth, until the people who inhabited them left - who went in search of better life, and some into oblivion.
From the buildings discussed below, it is clearly noticeable that not only people, but also houses can age. As soon as a house is deprived of signs of human presence - the smells of food, the sounds of voices, little things and decorations that give comfort, and as soon as there is no one to take care of it - the building deteriorates, ages and slowly dies. Just imagine how good these buildings would be if someone needed them, someone who put a piece of their soul into them.
When I was preparing the selection, it turned out that there were countless abandoned houses that I wanted to talk about, and in this article I decided to limit myself to only castles. If you are interested, we will return to this topic and get acquainted with other abandoned places - mansions, factories, factories, fortresses and much more. Here we go?
Castle Miranda in Belgium.
Castle Miranda in Belgium was built by an English-born architect in 1866 for the family of the Earl of Lidkirk-Beafort, who lived there until World War II.
In the post-war years, the owners of the castle were forced to sell it to the Belgian railway company, after which the castle changed hands many times. Since 1991, it has been abandoned: the owners cannot maintain it, since owning a castle is an expensive pleasure, and they do not want to transfer it to the municipality.
Meissen Castle
Meissen Castle (Belgium) was built almost five hundred years ago, and in different time served as a mansion, tobacco factory and even a distillery. When the first one came World War and the Belgian “elite” of society invested energy in education; a women’s educational boarding school operated in Meissen Castle. The institution ceased to exist in the seventies, when French education was banned in most Flemish regions.
By the way, I thought that Meissen Castle still existed, scaring rare visitors with ghosts and slowly collapsing, but it turns out that a couple of years ago it was demolished. It's a pity. It was a magnificent building with a long unusual story. Alas, I did not have time to visit there.
Bannerman's Castle
At the beginning of the last century, an immigrant from Scotland, the famous arms dealer Bannerman, bought an island in America for his business needs. An enterprising Scot built a castle on it, the remains of which we can still see today.
Bannerman left in 1916, leaving no heirs, and the castle was left without an owner, but with huge reserves of ammunition - some of them exploded two years after the death of the businessman. Part of the structure collapsed, but the building survived. In the fifties, the only thread that connected the castle and the rest of the world - the ferry - ceased to exist, and if earlier at least rare tourists wandered onto the island, now the castle was left alone with its old age.
In 1969, there was a severe fire - the roof of the castle burned out and some of the floors were damaged, but this did not break Bannerman's castle - it continued to menacingly jut its countless turrets into the sky.
In 2009, almost a third of the walls of the building collapsed, and today it looks like this:
Prince Halim Palace (Egypt)
The design of this building, stunning in its luxury, was designed by the famous architect Antonio Laskiak.
The palace was built at the beginning of the 20th century as a residence for the ruling family, but over time the building was transformed, and for more than half a century it housed Al-Nassriyah, one of the best boys' schools in Egypt. In 2004, the building was finally abandoned, and today only the wind blows through it.
Villa on Como Island
This building was built on the island of Como (Italy) and in the first period of its history - and it began in the middle of the 19th century - it was called Villa Vecci, named after its creator, Philippe de Vecci, who built the mansion for his family. Today it is popularly called a “haunted house”: it is believed that it is inhabited by the spirit of the wife of the head of the family, who never found a home, who committed suicide.
These are the stories. It is sad that these houses are apparently doomed: their reconstruction requires a lot of money, and it is much more profitable not to restore the old building, but to build a new one. But most abandoned castles have problems identifying the owner, so even some foundations for the support of ancient monuments cannot take them under their wing. On the other hand, there is some kind of sad beauty in these bricks overgrown with moss, empty windows and the silence of the rooms.
